I Watched Trump's Entire Election Fraud Speech... Here's the Truth

On Thursday night, Donald Trump delivered a 25-minute speech, the bulk of which was focused on what he called new and disturbing revelations about the 2020 election, foreign interference, and the insecurity of our election machines. I watched the whole thing so you don't have to. I assume you have better things to do at 9 p.m. Eastern time on a Thursday night. But here's my biggest takeaway. When I was a kid, there was a big promotion done. Geraldo Rivera, who was a giant star at the time, was going to uncover what was in Al Capone's vault. It was a live TV event. No one really knew what was in Al Capone's vault. You know, this famous mobster. There was rumors that there was tons of money or jewels. They did this whole run-up to the actual opening of Al Capone's vault, where Geraldo talked about what people speculated could be in there and all these things like these theories and these ideas. It was really exciting. Then they opened the vault, and there was not a whole heck of a lot in there. It was, and I still remember it 40 years later, one of the most disappointing times of my entire young life. That's kind of like what this speech was. Donald Trump seemed to suggest that there was gonna be a big revelation, and there were some things in there that I think are absolutely worth following up on. But again, for a president who has spent six years insisting he has proof that the 2020 election was somehow stolen from him, he again failed to even come close to delivering on that. I want to break that all down. Before I do it, I want to ask you to subscribe to my channel, Independent Authentic, and hear whenever news breaks. Sometimes I do one video a day. Sometimes, like today, I do three. All right, so in the run-up to this speech, Donald Trump had said it was gonna be a very big speech, that there was gonna be major breaking news in it, and that it was gonna be about election security and the 2020 election in particular. Now, I've already said any speech that Donald Trump is giving in primetime from the White House on July 16th of a midterm election year in which every single voter will tell you affordability, the economy, and inflation are their most important issues, any speech that's not primarily focused on that is a mistake, politically speaking. But Trump did a good job in the first five minutes actually reading off the teleprompter and going through the best case scenario he could for his first 19 months in office. One big beautiful bill, no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, 401Ks doing well, stock market hitting record highs, crime down in the country, the border more secure. All of those things are actually smart things for Donald Trump to talk about. The problem was that was the first five minutes of the speech, and the remaining 20 minutes of the speech was focused on this election security thing. Now, the biggest news, and by news I mean new thing that we didn't know, was Trump in information he is declassifying as of tonight that you can find on whitehouse.gov, and I'm gonna put a link to it in the comments here so that you can go through it all yourself, said that he had learned that 220 million voter files had been accessed by China in the 2020 election, that China had gotten access to 220 million voter files. So let me say that is not good, full stop. But that does a couple things. One, Donald Trump was president during the 2020 election, just as a reminder. So if you think that China got in because Joe Biden let our guard down, no, it was actually Donald Trump. And number two, getting access to voter files and information about Americans is, again, not great, but that's not evidence that China meddled in the election. Trump kept saying China meddled in the election. The election was stolen. Those two things don't connect. Having access to the voter file and to voters and where they live, not good, but not the same as proof that votes were changed by China or anyone else. He then went on to detail how he had evidence that there had been this broad scale effort not to tell him when he was president, not to tell him about the threats China posed, and not to tell him about the fact that the intelligence community had come to the conclusion that our electronic voting machines were potentially susceptible to interference and meddling. Now, again, he did not say in any way, shape, or form that they had been meddled with, they had been interfered with, just that he had not been presented with the information that they could be meddled with. So, again, Al Capone's vault, right? A lot of kind of like, oh, wow, that'd be crazy if it happened. Oh, that'd be interesting if that was in Al Capone's vault. You open the vault and you're like, hey, there's nothing in there. There's no jewels, there's no money, there's no guns. It's kind of this. It's like, wait, China meddled in our election? Well, no, they got voter information, but they didn't meddle. Oh, they got into our voting machines? Well, no, they didn't get into our voting machines, but our voting machines are vulnerable. Again, our voting machines being vulnerable, bad. China getting access to lots and lots of voter information, bad, but not the same as they stole the election, they actively interfered in the election. Okay. I want to pull up a couple tweets from a former colleague of mine, a guy named Zach Cohen, who is the national security reporter at CNN, who knows this stuff in and out certainly better than I do. And I just want to share this with you guys. Okay. So he's saying the documents Trump is referring to about this, both the China meddling and China getting access to our information and it being kept from him. Here's what he says. The documents Trump is referring to right now, and CNN has reviewed all of them, largely discussed vulnerabilities that have been known for years and or are reflected in the 2020 US intelligence community assessment. None of the declassified information supports the claim that any previous election results, including the 2020 presidential contest that Trump lost, were manipulated by foreign interference or fraud in any way that would have changed the outcome. Just a little bit more. The documents and notes Trump is referring to in his speech were largely intended to round up everything the US government had information about that could potentially be considered per a source with direct knowledge. After analysis, the Intel community decided to either incorporate them in the 2021 minority report or assessed based on verbiage in the documents themselves were not concrete enough to view as consequential enough, the source said. Okay. So all that means most of what Trump was saying in this speech night was already known. And number two, he didn't provide by the intelligence community in that 2021 intelligence committee report, intelligence community report. And number two, he did not provide any credible evidence that China or any other foreign country engaged in successfully in meddling, interfering, changing votes in the 2020 or any other election. So full of sound and fury signifying nothing. Al Capone's vault seems like it would be cool to get into and you get into it and there's not a lot there. Again, would I love for us to work on closing loopholes in our systems that allowed China to hack and steal 220 million, according to the Trump administration, 220 million voter files, information about voters. A hundred percent. Do I think we have to work to make our electronic voting machines as impregnable as possible? 100% because yes, that absolutely is a vulnerability, even though it hasn't been exploited yet. It could do. I think we're going to be able to get to what Trump said, which is a hundred percent guaranteed that they can't be meddled with. It's going to be challenging. He used all of this as a run-up to say, we need to pass the Save America Act, which I've said before, and I'll say again, is not passing. And it's not passing because there simply are not 60 votes in the Senate for it. And John Thune, the Republican Senate majority leader is not going to get rid of the legislative filibuster to pass it with a simple majority. So that's the Trump speech in case you missed it. That's everything you need to know to sound smart and well-informed about it. As I said before, I do hope you subscribe Independent Authentic in here whenever news needs analyzing. If you are already a subscriber to my channel, I hope you consider becoming a member. Click on that membership tab on my YouTube channel for as little as $2.99 a month. 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